Hey Daniels is this any of the stuff you cover in your classes? Just curious as I'm just making a lot of this shit up as I go, basically off common sense. In any case, I hope you or the HG, comment on what I'm doing.
I'm trying my best to organize these in before/after sequences but some of the plants changed so much I might mix a few up
I haven't gone back to relearn all the names of the plants so feel free to shout out if you know one! Hey I'm a game show too!
Let's start off with an
after pic. This is where I got the idea to do this post.
Don't know the name.
Same species, different plant before/after. This plant looks pretty good at first, but inside it was twisting up on itself. Note that I won't allow anything green to grow below the green currently their. Up or out!!
If I remember, this plant has big white flowers. Look how top heavy it already is so how is it going to hold any flowers? Hopefully I've given it some structure to continue to grow upwards and support it's blooms.
Here's one of my rosemary plants all twisted up within the ground cover which happens to get only indirect sun
This is one of my plants that has a "reedy" base. Note the tons of new growth sprawling out from the bottom as well as the dead shit everywhere! This one was a tough one to figure out. My goal is to try and minimize the amount of new growth coming from the bottom in order to keep the plant sitting "up" off the ground. But you can see it also has nodes, and those nodes do branch, so I think I'll get the upperhand.
A couple days later I moved out to the front yard. The next pic shows a good example of a zero lot line. I'm standing on my neighbors driveway while working in my yard. Pretty cozy neighborhood.
This plant was a nightmare for me. My wife and I are still disputing this one because she like how big and spread out it was (she's been pruning this one).
This was one of those 2" looks good but underneath I dug away about 30 snails and was having a mass exodus of spiders, sow bugs, little red bugs. Pretty horrific. Nothing about this plant was growing up and you can see all the 3 foot long branches that didn't have anything growing on them except for the last 2". But I stayed my course and cut everything away growing horizontal and you can see what I'm left with. But look at all the great compost that got left behind!! Now it can truly feed off of itself without killing itself.
This the before pic. The after pic has this plant near the back and a second in the foreground, both pruned.
Here's an after pic but the dirt circle and the soon to be dead snail pretty much tell you what it looked like before.
I love these plants whatever they are. The flowers are really cool! But it's a tough one to grow because of it's "reedy" nature and this plant doesn't have much in the way of nodes. The before pic was of one plant and the after plant is of a different plant that was much larger but had consumed the sprinkler head.
An after pic of one bottle brush and a before pic of another
Another after of a reedy plant
More work to be done. the far right plant almost out of the pic is the reedy plant I just showed above with two of it's cousins side by side to the left.
Hopefully you guys found this entertaining and a bit educational. Time will tell how badly fucked up I did. But I'm hoping to go from ZERO to HERO with that one plant my wife is mad about!